Al Capp Quote

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.

The fear of getting knocked down is less about the pain of the fall and more about the embarrassment in having fallen. And so, to rid myself of the latter is to reduce my concern about the former, whi...

celebrate your happiness in limit so others not feel abashment.

True poetry is embarrassing.

Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shout...

They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in when Sandy says hello to hi...

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

My fear is that he'll forget me," she bemoaned with crystalline sadness. I took her hand, limp with loss and held it. "I'd rather not be remembered by any man as it saves me the embarrassment.

You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.